When there are legitimate posts here that are marked as spam, and they’re marked ‘not spam’ they are then visible in the forums. So, I think it works normally. I wonder why it doesn’t on your installation.

@chrishajer: I can sort of rescue a spam post. I don’t have any problem finding the spam posts in the admin panel, and marking them as “Not Spam”. They disappear from the spam posts and show up in the regular posts.

But in the front end, they do not show up unless I am logged in as admin and click the “+2 More” link.

I am using a custom theme, but it is built from Kakumei and should not be very functionally different from that. I switched back to the default theme, and everything functioned the same.

@ipstenu: I deactivated the Ajaxed Quotes plugin, didn’t seem to make any difference.

I then deactivated all of the plugins, that didn’t change anything either.

So I deactivated all the plugins and switched to the default theme. No changes. But when I reactivated those plugins, and switched to my custom theme, I am able to see those posts now, even when I am not logged in.

The “+2 more” link still remains at the top, but the posts in the thread don’t seem change between the regular and all views. So it seems partially fixed, but the more link remaining makes think that more posts could get caught in this limbo.

It almost seems like there was some caching involved and reactivating the theme and the plugins cleared this. But I don’t see that being the case with any of the plugins I am using. And it isn’t the brower’s cache, the problem is the same on multiple machines, any OS or browser.